The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

The line suggests that societies tend to revere those who can “read” the natural world and translate it into meaning—whether as scientists, healers, artists, or storytellers. “Interprets Nature” implies more than observation: it is the act of making patterns intelligible and useful to others, turning raw experience into knowledge, prediction, or beauty. The claim also hints at a hierarchy of prestige: people who can explain nature’s workings (or give them narrative and symbolic form) are granted authority and honor. In a Hurstonian frame, it can be read as a defense of the cultural value of interpretation itself—of the mediator who bridges lived reality and communal understanding.